Monday, December 9, 2013

Test Question: EU Has How Many Currencies?

It helps to remember from time to time that the Euro is not the only currency in the EU. The EU has 28 member states, of which 11 states have their own currency. Of course, the EZ member states have by far the bulk of the EU's GDP but, nevertheless, the EU is an economic and political union which has a total of 12 currencies.



EU members
EZ members
Local currency










1 Austria
1 Austria



2 Belgium
2 Belgium



3 Bulgaria



1 lev

4 Croatia



2 kuna

5 Cyprus
3 Cyprus



6 Czech Republic



3 koruna

7 Denmark



4 krone

8 Estonia
4 Estonia



9 Finland
5 Finland



10 France
6 France



11 Germany
7 Germany



12 Greece 
8 Greece



13 Hungary



5 forint

14 Ireland
9 Ireland



15 Italy
10 Italy



16 Latvia



6 lats

17 Lithuania



7 litas

18 Luxembourg
11 Luxembourg


19 Malta
12 Malta



20 Netherlands
13 Netherlands


21 Poland



8 sloty

22 Portugal
14 Portugal



23 Romania



9 leu

24 Slovakia
15 Slovakia



25 Slovenia
16 Slovenia



26 Spain
17 Spain



27 Sweden



10 krona

28 UK



11 pd.sterling

Too bad if only one of the twelve currencies would bring the entire EU down!

2 comments:

  1. I'd be surprised if one currency brought the EU down - it's the dollar that's unstable right now. For all their bluster and AAA rating, it's far from being what they claim.

    At least the EU countries are being held to account in terms of their finances - the US is avoiding doing this, and thereby leave themselves the weaker. This from two perspectives: firstly their avoiding the problem means they're well out of practice when it comes to making hard decisions. Secondly, when something does happen the other side of this is that there'll be nothing the Americans can do to stop it happening.

    I'd be interested in your thoughts as to how Germany's financing countries like Greece means that the government of Greece is being allowed to escape its responsibilities.

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  2. I believe some of those other currencies are pegged to the Euro at a fixed rate. Does that make them susceptible to the fallout from a Euro failure?

    In other words would the Krona follow the new Mark into the stratosphere and the Litas the New Lira into the Mariana Trench.

    Also, assuming the Fed stops printing dollars (i.e. it doesn't confect some different colour fairy dust to replace QE) will the ECB do the same. Can it afford to do so, can it afford not to do so?

    I suspect the BoE will follow suit; given that its more or less the Fed's offshore district office.

    CK

    I've decoupled from Google etc - got caught up in the Snowden v NSA wars, along with tens of thousands of others, many of whom are Texan born & bred.

    The NSA had no choice but to close Lavabit (a small no-frills/no ads commercial mail service) because the Repubs went ballistic after the Human Rights Watch Moscow agent broadcast Snowden's Lavabit email address on her Facebook page. My primary email account was with Lavabit.

    I wonder if the Repubs became aware of the HRW agents blunder when it was gleefully reported in the UK Torygraph.

    There's one thing we shall never run short of - useful idiots.

    ck

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